CVE-2010-2249

moderate-risk
Published 2010-06-30

Memory leak in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.44, and 1.4.x before 1.4.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a PNG image containing malformed Physical Scale (aka sCAL) chunks.

Do I need to act?

~
1.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Fedoraproject Suse Apple Vmware Opensuse Libpng Debian Canonical

References (80)

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%...
Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
Mailing List http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/40302
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/40336
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/40472
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/40547
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/41574
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/42317
Mailing List http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware...
Broken Link http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
Third Party Advisory http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
Third Party Advisory http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457
and 60 more references
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal
Exposure 20/34 · Moderate